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License Agreement

Read the following terms and conditions before using the Footloose SDK (hereafter referred to as the Software). This agreement licenses the Software to you and contains warranty and liability disclaimers. By using the software you, the user (“Licensee”), are accepting and agreeing to the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, do not use the Software.

LICENSE

Nauck IT KG (hereafter known as the Author) provides this Software to you and grants to you a non-exclusive license to use the Software for your personal use or in your business or profession.

DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATIONS OF REMEDIES

The Software is provided "as is" and the Author specifically disclaims all warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will the Author be liable to you for any damages, including any loss of profit or other incidental, special or consequential damages even if the Author has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The Author does not warrant, guaranty or make any representations regarding the use, or the results of the use, of the Software in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, currentness, or otherwise, and does not warrant that the operation of any software will be uninterrupted or error free. The Author expressly disclaims any warranties not stated herein. No oral or written information or advice given by the Author or others shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of the foregoing warranty. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitations or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages so the above exclusions and/or limitations may not apply to you.

GENERAL

The Software is owned by the Author and is protected by German copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You may not sublicense, assign, or transfer the license or the Software. You may not translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works based on the Software.

Before using the Software you must agree to the following:

You are not allowed to operate more than one (1) copy of this Software package at one time per license. This means that if you have 10 programmers that COULD possibly use the Software at the same time, you must also have ten (10) licenses.

This license grants you the right to use the Software on a royalty-free basis.

You may not rent or lease the Software. You may not transfer this license without the written permission of the author. If this software is an update or upgrade, you may not sell or give away previous versions.

With all new licenses 12 month support and maintenance is included. The purchased license and all updates you receive within support and maintenance are perpetual.

PROTECTING THE SOFTWARE

The Footloose SDK is a distributed computing toolkit for you, the programmer. In order to protect your investment and our intellectual property Nauck IT KG uses various protections to help reduce unauthorized distribution of the Software.

License key: The Software is specially serialized with the registered company name. In addition, the license key is specially encoded and encrypted. Each license key is unique to the registered owner. For evaluation you need a free 30-day trial license key. If you have not purchased a license then you may only use the Software for evaluation purposes only.

Obfuscation: Nauck IT KG may use obfuscation technologies for all binary builds protect its intellectual property.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE

With a purchased license you are allowed to distribute the purchased Software with your application to an unlimited number of users with your license key.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE

With each license one (1) year support and maintenance (S&P) is included. You are eligible to receive all minor and major updates for the version of the software that you license hereunder for a period of one (1) year from the date on you purchase the license for the software. S&P also includes unlimited priority Email support for the version of the software you license hereunder with an average response time of 72 hours during normal business hours (Monday - Friday, Central European Time).